Lemon Quartz 💎🧡


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Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica. The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO₄ silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO₂. 

Cleavage: Indistinct

Color: Colorless through various colors (pink, orange, purple, dark brown) to black

Fracture: Conchoidal

Luster: Vitreous – waxy to dull when massive

Melting point: 1670 °C (β tridymite) 1713 °C (β cristobalite)

Mohs scale hardness: 7 – lower in impure varieties (defining mineral)

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